ISLS 2026 Agenda

8:00 AM

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Practice Paper · ALP 1100

Co-designing Teaching and Learning Experiences

Practice-oriented papers share co-designed teaching experiences across varied contexts, including wordless books for dual-language kindergarteners, community-building in online undergraduate courses, and board game design with Brownie Scouts. Other talks address climate justice instruction, metacognitive learning strategies, and research-practice partnerships in teacher education.

Motivation, Emotion & Engagement in a talk

6 talks

Long Paper · ALP 2600

Ideology, Culture, and Race in Learning

A long-paper session on how ideology, culture, and race shape learning and teaching, with studies on facilitator sensemaking about social-emotional learning in a refugee program and a justice-centered genetics unit on racial health disparities. Other papers analyze whiteness in science professional development and the epistemic work of a right-wing education podcast.

Motivation, Emotion & Engagement in a talk

4 talks

Short Paper · ALP 2700

VR/AR/MR/XR and immersive learning

A short-paper session on immersive learning across VR, AR, and mixed reality, addressing how to assess learning processes with multimodal and log data rather than pre-post tests alone. Studies span AR multispecies inquiry with bees, instructional sequencing in VR, career exploration, and mobile AR for adult language learning.

Motivation, Emotion & Engagement in a talk

5 talks

10:00 AM

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Short Paper · ALP 3600

Strategies and frameworks for learning analytics at multiple scales

Short papers present strategies and frameworks for learning analytics at multiple scales, including latent profile analysis of math anxiety in game-based learning and teacher engagement in micro-credential PD. Other talks compare small versus large language models for generating math problems and examine self-regulated learning with GenAI.

Motivation, Emotion & Engagement in a talk

6 talks

2:30 PM

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Long Paper · ALP 2500

Motivation, Interest, Identity, and Achievement

Four quantitative papers linking motivation, identity, belonging, and achievement, several at large scale. Topics span equity-oriented pedagogy predicting college success, the attenuation of math identity across the high-school-to-STEM transition, motivation mediating belonging and STEM persistence, and affective-cognitive links in primary students' scientific literacy.

Motivation, Emotion & Engagement in a talk

4 talks

4:15 PM

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Poster · Outdoors

ICLS Posters - Thursday Poster Session (In-Person)

An in-person poster session covering wide-ranging learning sciences research, including science and engineering teacher reasoning, AI in classrooms, and equity-oriented design in research-practice partnerships. Topics span heritage-language and algebra apps, urban gardens as educational technology, cognitive presence in MOOCs, and community-engaged research experiences.

Motivation, Emotion & Engagement in a talk

91 talks